A Clean Solar Alternative to Kerosene Lamps, Nepal

I feel privileged to post this updates directly through the experience from my fresh field visit of eastern hilly region of Nepal. My current field visit included a visit in a school (Shree Laxmi Secondary School) located at Warangi VDC of Morang District. It took me 8 hrs of continuous walk from the nearby road accessible...

Remember your childhood days for a moment when you were studying in school. Your daily life would be waking up early in the morning, getting ready for school, spending whole day in school with friends and teachers, learning new things, returning home, playing for some time with friends, completing home-works from school for...

On the eve of Thanksgiving, we - ECCA Family would like to express our sincere gratitude towards all our donors, supporters and well-wishers for your continuous support and contribution towards our initiation in serving the needy students and the community in Nepal. Thank you for spreading A Joy of Light in the Life of...

With YOUR SUPPORT, 65 household of Onewang Village, situated in a remote location in the hills of Chitwan with no access to electricity were equipped with Solar Light. Now, they do not have to rely on kerosene based wicked lamp for lighting their evening hours which had created enormous amount of negative health impact and...

Seasonal greetings and thank you, to all our donors, supporters and well-wishers for your continuous support in our program. Without your support we would not have been able to serve the needy community in our country. New Youth Children Development Society is an orphanage being operated by a group of youth in Bhaktapur...

Thank you, to all our donors, supporters and well-wishers for your continuous support in our effort to provide a clean solar light alternative in place of kerosene lamps for the rural people of Nepal. In past months, we had received requests to support for the installation of community charging centre in two areas; Chitwan...

With the beginning of New Year 2012, hopes for the rural people to get a better lighting solution during evening hours are very low. The main reason is due to increase in demand for electricity in urban areas, limited construction and development of hydro power projects, remoteness for the extension of electricity cables....

With the increasing popularity of solar tuki in the rural areas, the demand of solar tuki sets are in raise. As per the demand and need of solar tuki in the rural areas, a community charging center model was developed to provide the benefit for the community who are not in the state of purchasing solar tuki set. In this...

Kaleshwor village, known as one of the remote village of Lalitpur district lies at the southern hilly terrains of the district. Although the village is at a distance of 48km from the nearest city point – Chhapagaau, It takes around 8 hrs of local bus ride and 2hrs of uphill walk to reach the village. Due to hilly...

Seasonal Greetings to all from Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA), Nepal. I would like to initiate this report with an acknowledgment to all our donors, supporters and well-wishers of our program – “A Clean Solar Alternative To Kerosene Lamps”. In this quarter, we have continued our...

With the increasing demand of more light and the emphasis made on research and development works towards developing locally and easily assembled LED lights, 1 Watt and 2 Watt LED Lights were produced. These lights currently are in the production phase at the local level by youth group. By the end of January 2011, the lights...

The following activities had been achieved till the end of October 2010: • Discussion and meetings with Executive Committee members were done during this period. The discussions were mainly focused for the development of new strategy for the promotion of solar tuki in new locations. • Emphasis on research &...

The following activities had been achieved till the end of July 2010: • Establishment & Support for Community Charging Center, Chitwan: A Community Charging center has been established at the kantipur village of Chitwan District. Near about 50 household without connection of national grid electricity are benefited...

Bill Brower is a Field Program Officer with GlobalGiving who is visiting our partners’ projects throughout South and Southeast Asia. On April 28-29 he visited the village of Kantipur in southern Nepal, which received solar lamps three months ago. His “Postcard” from the visit: It can be difficult when I visit...

Following Activities have taken place in past 3 months: • Research and Development : Further development of • Coordination with Women Acting Together for Change (WATCH) for promotion of solar tuki in its project areas. i.e. Nawalparashi and Rupandehi District were made. • Orientation program regarding the ways for...

Following activities have taken place in the past 3 months:  Two representatives from ERM Foundation (from UK and India) visited Nepal to review and to support in the preparation of detailed promotional strategy for solar tuki  Identification of possible microfinance organizations for the promotion of solar tuki...

Following activities have taken place in the past 2 months: • Coordination with Mr. Rainer Mutschler for the promotion of Solar Tuki in El-Salvador o One set of Solar Tuki sent (as sample) via post o Couriered the hardcopies and emailed the softcopies of Solar Tuki Technical Manual and Brochures • Coordination with...

In the past six months, progress has been done in different aspects. DISTRIBUTION The outreach to the rural community has increased. More no. of rural community groups / cooperatives (from east, central and west Nepal) has been linked. In the past six months, 500 no. of solar tuki lamps were sold and new linkage...

We would like to share a video with you about the solar tuki and its use in Nepal.

TRAININGS CONDUCTED • Motivator training to the field staffs of INGOs / NGOs and various projects • Training camp for the youths focused on preparing the youths as promoters of alternative and renewable energy • Training camp for the children and formation of children club - which conduct small scale follow-up...

In the period of one year (till July 2006), since the commercial launching of the LIGHT FOR ALL campaign, total 3,100 solar tukis have been promoted – around 2,600 solar tuki sets have been distributed through various local groups using the micro-financing scheme through the Revolving Fund and around 500 sets have been...